MTSU senior Alexis Hutchinson, left, of Nashville and spring graduate Alison Taylor of Murfreesboro are competing in this week's Air Race Classic against 46 other all-female teams.

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Middle Tennessee State University aerospace products Alison Taylor of Murfreesboro and Alexis Hutchinson of Nashville are on the flight of their relatively young lives.

Taylor, 20, a May graduate of MTSU, and current student Hutchinson are flying from Pasco, Wash., to Fayetteville, Ark., this week as participants in the 37th annual Air Race Classic. They are flying in Taylor's Piper Cherokee 140D.

The aerospace professional pilot grad and student are one of 47 teams racing in the event, which ends today. After the race, they plan to fly to Kitty Hawk, N.C., site of the Wright brothers' ...